John Rockefeller: legislative session. mr. rockefeller: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from west virginia. mr. rockefeller: mr. president, i just want people to understand that the f.a., federal aviation administration reauthorization process is moving slowly but steadily and we take several steps forward but none bac backwar backwarded and the reason is because there is a lot of -- as

John Rockefeller: we did yesterday, we approved 14 amendments. they were all a tremendous amount of work done by the staff to work those owvment we have another large group that we hope to be able to do this afternoon, so large chunks of the bill are actually getting done. then we have a numbe of controversial amendments, or potentially controversial, and